ABSTRACT
The chapter presents the path into the practice of one idea: to build new ideas around identity, reconciliation and the body as a territory and engine of peace; starting from bodies in motion and through the means of dance. The music and dance workshops were built around the thematic axis of the dances and rhythms of the carnivals of the Atlantic coast of Colombia, because they are a common point of reference to most Colombians; they mix influences from several ethnic groups, and thus would offer a common ground between people with different cultural backgrounds. The starting point to reflect on this intervention and the relevance of traditional dance, particularly as a source of tools that empower identity and collective reconciliation, is directly related to the notions that live and are constructed from our bodies in the cultural and familiar history that each of us owns.
